Chopin: The Complete Waltzes – review

Stephen Hough(Hyperion)There's no prescribed order for playing the 20 Chopin waltzes that Stephen Hough includes in this delightful, effortlessly stylish collection, and Hough opts to present the eight pieces Chopin sanctioned for publication in his lifetime first, in chronological order, from the E flat major Op 18 to the Waltz in A flat Op 64 No 3, before moving on to the posthumously published ones. As a sequence it works well, allowing Hough to set off his marvellously coloured account of th...

Read full article Share article